Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction (Record no. 67206)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198859116
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Distributor Name : Zaffa Books & Distributors
Distributor address : 313/103A, H. No.-15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi
Bill Number : ZBD0468
Bill Date : 05/03/2026
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Classification number 823.80 DAS
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Personal name Dasgupta, Ushashi.
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Title Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction
Remainder of title : The Lodger World.
Statement of responsibility, etc /Ushashi Dasgupta.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , UK
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2020.
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Extent xiii, 307p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
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Price amount 7654
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Summary, etc When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its last scene, another landlady sets breakfast down for her enigmatic lodger. These kinds of characters are everywhere in Dickens's writing. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World explores the significance of tenancy in his fiction.<br/><br/>In nineteenth century Britain the vast majority of people rented, rather than owned, their homes. Instead of keeping to themselves, they shared space - renting, lodging, taking lodgers in, or simply living side-by-side in a crowded modern city. Charles Dickens explored both the chaos and the unexpected harmony to be found in rented spaces, the loneliness and sociability, the interactions between cohabitants, the complex gender dynamics at play, and the relationship between space and money. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction demonstrates that a cosy, secluded home life was beyond the reach of most Victorian Londoners, and considers Dickens's nuanced conception of domesticity. Tenancy maintained an enduring hold upon his imagination, giving him new stories to tell and offering him a set of models to think about authorship. He celebrated the fact that unassuming houses brim with narrative potential: comedies, romances, and detective plots take place behind their doors. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World wedges these doors open.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Charles Dickens
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Properties of Fiction
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Personal name Ushashi Dasgupta
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 12/03/2026 Zafaa Books & Distributors 7654.00   823.80 DAS 31400 12/03/2026 12/03/2026 Books
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